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Urie Bronfenbrenner

"Like the sorcerer of old, the television set casts its magic spell, freezing speech and action, turning the living into silent statues so long as the enchantment lasts. The primary danger of the television screen lies not so much in the behavior it produces, although there is danger there, as in the behavior it prevents: the talks, the games, the family festivities...through which much of the child's learning takes place and through which his character is formed. Turning on the television set can turn off the process that transforms children into people."

Source : "Two worlds of childhood: U.S. and U.S.S.R".

Urie Bronfenbrenner

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“I should remember more, and I have a pretty good memory.”
“If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.”
“Adults don't know how to respect and really love their young ones. Often love is confused with possession. You say "this is my" about your child, without taking into account that you're dealing with a real person with his/her own personality, rights, and autonomy, even when very young.”
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
“My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.”

Source : "Farrah Attacks Son's Drug Dealer" by wenn.com, June 1, 2001.
“Spiritual power is a force which history clearly teaches has been the greatest force in the development of men. Ye. we have been merely playing with it and never have really studied it as we have the physical forces. Some day people will learn that material things do not bring happiness, and are of little use in making people creative and powerful. Then the scientists of the world will turn their laboratories over to the study of spiritual forces which have hardly been scratched.”
“Although abortion has been legal nationwide for more than a quarter century, access remains difficult for many women.”
“We have the illusion of freedom only because so few ever try to exercise it. Try it sometime. Try to save your home from the highway crowd, or to work a trade without the approval of the goons, or to open a little business without a permit, or to grow a crop without a quota, or to educate your child the way you want to, or to not have a child. We all have the freedom of a balloon floating in a pin factory.”

Source : "From Far Right to Far Left". The New York Times Magazine, (p. 305), Decemebr 6, 1970.

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